It's not officially National Send a Nude Day—but send nudes anyway

Sending nudes: a time-honored, horny part of contemporary courtship, and a fundamental part of getting off together in 2016. But is the exchange of nude photos so thoroughly woven into the fabric of our social interactions that we need a special day to do it?

But, my thirsty friends, I regret to inform you that today is *not* National Send a Nude Day. It's not that there's anything wrong with such a day, in principle. It's just that today is May 19, and National Send a Nude Day is in October.

@ForeverFlyB is perhaps not getting the credit he deserves for being first to a trend that didn't blow up until four years later. But that October date didn't stick, and every year since has brought attempts to get #nationalsendanudeday trending in just about every month.

It just didn't work until now. Today's edition seems to have jumped off from Instagram, carried over to Twitter by one @lovee_valicia. She has more than 5,000 followers, and a few retweets from that account was apparently enough to kickstart Send a Nude Day after years of failure to launch. Worth noting that most of the past attempts were by dudes—it took a woman to finally make this a thing.